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Free speech is like garlic. If you are perfectly sure of yourself, you enjoy it and your friends tolerate it.

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Free speech is necessary for self-government in democratic societies, whereby citizens need to be able to freely propose ideas, express their preferences, and criticize those in power.

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Free speech is endowed with the ability to bring about truth in that it enables that the ultimate good to be reached by free trade and ultimate competition in the marketplace of ideas.

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Free speech is grounded in the assumption that errors in perception are incapable of withstanding a fair trial based on fact and reason.

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Free speech is not a concept compatible with the fragile victimhood culture of the left. And nor are any of the other precious forms of free expression so critical to artist, comedians, writers and journalist, such as criticism, satire, mockery and mischief.

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Free speech is like the angel that delivered saint peter from prison. Its mission is to rescue from captivity some divinely inspired truth or principle, which unjust men have locked in dungeons or bound in chains.

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